Congress, the states, and courts all vie to decide the future of GMO labeling.
To say that Los Angeles merely failed would be putting it mildly.
"The free market is suddenly hip on the farm again."
A panel of government-appointed experts has recommended new food taxes, eating less meat, restricting food marketing, and banning some food at the local level.
It's time for key local-food advocates to admit-loudly-that strict food-safety regulations are not the answer.
If a new federal food-safety agency would help eliminate inefficiencies, it might earn widespread support.
The implications reach far beyond just raisins.
Chefs and consumers are overjoyed. Some legal experts in the state are also satisfied.
A handful of food policy cognoscenti discuss the top food policy issues of 2014 and predict what might happen in 2015.
Obama has taken concrete steps to loosen restrictions on U.S.-Cuba trade. Agriculture has been-and will be-the key driver of change.
When it comes to alcohol laws, Pennsylvania is about as close to Saudi Arabia as you can get in America.
The early results of this bipartisan effort, it may surprise you to learn, aren't half bad.
Just as critics feared, the Farm Bill is waste billed as savings.
The era of small-"p" prohibition has persisted for more than eight decades since the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
Hellman's says a competitor doesn't meet FDA "mayonnaise" standards. So it sued.
The USDA's school lunch program has earned a failing grade.
Proposed FDA food-safety rules under the FSMA show the expensive campaign to modernize food safety shouldn't be confused with one that improves food safety.
The city is finding out that more rules don't equal healthier eating.
Defending an unconstitutional law may prove as costly as it is foolhardy.
Baylen Linnekin looks inside a Washington, DC food desert-which features a Starbucks and a campus dining hall. And pomegranates.
Congress passed the Bill of Rights 225 years ago today. Why the struggle for food freedom is at the heart of those amendments.
Success stories, deregulation, and voter-led changes spell (mostly) good news.
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund's first annual Food Freedom Fest, which took place last weekend, was a fantastic event.
Baylen Linnekin speaks with Maria Canelhas from Fruta Feia, which has saved literally tons of great food from the garbage.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro's SWEET Act would implement an excise tax on soda and other sweetened drinks. Supporters of the measure are difficult to find.
Are one in four Americans really too fat to fight? The figure appears to be inflated.
The FDA's growing crackdown on added food ingredients just doesn't add up.
Obesity rates may be leveling off or even falling.
France's restaurants and French cooking are under attack. The enemy comes from within-and wears a white hat.
A lawsuit shines a light on a USDA-created board that controls supply, says you can't sell tart cherries without board permission.
Public health activists in New York City and beyond will feel the sting from the defeat of the city's misguided soda ban. And that's a good thing.
Congress took Dr. Oz to task for offering dietary advice. One needn't have any affection for Oz to recognize the chilling effect this has on free speech.
A new Institute for Justice report on food freedom, which I co-authored, makes clear that your right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want is under attack.
Did the FDA really back down? There are holes in that argument.
New York City's ridiculous soda ban had its final day in court this week. Here's why the state's highest court should strike down the ban.
Should we expand the USDA's failing National School Lunch Program, as First Lady Michelle Obama wants, or should we slow down its implementation, as House GOP members prefer? No.
Kentucky's lawsuit against the DEA may point the way to change.
The new documentary Fed Up claims to shine a critical light on the food industry and the "obesity epidemic." But it ignores the real culprit.
When it comes to food policy, many writers reach vastly different conclusions. That works only if we all agree to share and follow a few ground rules.
The nation's largest grower of Vidalia® onions is fighting-and flaunting-a Georgia state law that says he can't ship onions until the state says so. Why do Georgia and other states have dumb laws like these on the books?
How much pomegranate and blueberry must appear in "Pomegranate Blueberry" juice for the name not to be deceptive?
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